From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac Subject: Re: Question about multiple licenses Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:00:47 +0530 Message-ID: <421dd32b.AEQAPOA2muYAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZpQo-@mailjet.com> References: <681c721c.AEQAPExWoDUAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZoSX-@mailjet.com> <87mv6kj7i7.fsf@gmail.com> <20170828172936.GF1618@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <421dd32b.AEQAPOA2muYAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZpQo-@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dma3h-0000Bl-OQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:31:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <421dd32b.AEQAPOA2muYAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZpQo-@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dma3c-0003Th-Tb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:31:33 -0400 Received: from o172.p8.mailjet.com ([87.253.233.172]:60849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <421dd32b.AEQAPOA2muYAAAAAAAAAAAOtZhgAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZpQo-@bnc3.mailjet.com>) id 1dma3c-0003TO-NU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2017 02:31:28 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170828172936.GF1618@macbook42.flashner.co.il> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel Efraim Flashner writes: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:55:34PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: >> >> Alex Vong writes: >> >> > Based on the above general argument, I think we should list all the >> > licenses instead of just GPLv2+ since it would be inaccurate to say th= at >> > the whole program is under just GPLv2+. >> >> Listing all the licenses does seem like the safest thing to do. >> >> > Also, in this particular case, since ASL2.0 is incompatible with GPLv2= , >> > we actually need to take advantage of the "or later" clause, and >> > "upgrades" it to "GPLv3+". >> >> Is there any Guix package where we have actually done such a license >> upgrade? > > We have a couple of packages which state "GPL" and we've chosen GPL1+ or > something similar. Hmmm. This is not quite similar to the case of multiple licenses with the linkchecker package. I'll go ahead with listing all the licenses if there are no objections. =